Random applications failure OSD

Question

Hi All ,

Task sequence deploying Windows 10 1909 failing randomly while installing applications , it is quite random so sometimes it never fail and it complete successfully .

I'm running ConfigMgr 2002 with the latest hotfix applied, I also increased the cache size but still almost 50% chance of success

all failure errors are generic 0x80004005 , anyway idea what is happening ?

Answer 1

If they are application installs, then you can go down the route of Application Install Troubleshooting.
First confirm the content downloaded, then the AppEval / AppEnforce logs.
You can confirm, if you remove Applications from the deployment, you have 100% success during OSD?
Do any of these applications have issues deploying to production machines? The issues might be with your applications and not OSD.
When you install the applications during OSD, do you have all of the Applications installing in 1 step, or do you have 1 step per application?

I'd start by checking your deployment status on those application on production machines in the field.
I'd then start by having 1 Step Per Application Install and slowly adding 1 App back into the deployment at a time.

Answer 2

@Immer

As we mentioned this is random and sometimes the task sequence can run completely so in this situation like Gary said, we could consider our application deployment direction.

1. Could we share our task sequence steps screenshot to let us see the details of our application deployment?
2. There are some logs we could use during our app deployment, such as policyagent.log, we can see this log to check if we get the deployment policy first.
   For more details, here is a detailed track of our client install application process:
   how-to-track-an-installation-through-client-log-files
   Note: This is non-official Microsoft article just for your reference.

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